Brt buses seized by obasanjo book

Nigerias commercial capital, lagos, one of africas biggest cities with 10 million inhabitants, is famous for three things. No one would dare impound his vehicles, or drag his name in d mud like dis. Obasanjo rubbishing president jonathans achievements. Brt capacities greater than you think the antiplanner. Colonel adeboye obasanjo, who was injured in a firefight with boko haram insurgents last weekend in adamawa state, has been. Why brt buses are in very bad shape lagos commissioner. Following in the steps of his previous memoirs, my command and not my will, olusegun obasanjos my watch is more than the story of the obasanjo presidency. Community transit ct is the public transit authority of snohomish county, washington, united states, excluding the city of everett, in the seattle metropolitan area. The national accountability bureau nab on monday raided the peshawar development authority pda building and seized all bus rapid transit brt records in connection with its ongoing. At the same time, the transport cs announced the government will on monday facilitate a meeting between matatu owners and potential financiers to bring in the brt buses. It is regulated by lamata and currently operated by primero transport services limited.

Its last period of military rule ended in 1999 following the sudden death of former dictator sani abacha in 1998. Brt system for abuja that is estimated to be 35 km length of bus ways and available studies and detailed engineering design for a pilot brt on an identified corridor currently estimated to be about 17 km long and consisting of ancillary infrastructure. Obasanjo could have be in jail if buhari is not selective in. The way and manner the brt drivers intimidate private users on express lane is annoyingcuz of size and na govt property. Since last weekend, about 10 lag buses belonging to the lagos state government have been impounded in ota, ogun state and packed in obasanjo farms. This is funny, but then think about it and share your.

Obasanjo acidtalk, sha ma wo ni ti e just be patient and keep watching. It operates local bus, paratransit and vanpool service within snohomish county, as well as commuter buses to downtown seattle and the university of washington campus. People democratic party pdp wins under olusegun obasanjo. The secretarygeneral, antonio gutierrez had in september announced the establishment of the board to provide him with advice on mediation initiatives and back specific mediation efforts around the world. Lagos has also acquired about 90 new brt buses the lagos state commissioner for public transportation, kayode opeifa, on monday said that the state government had taken delivery of 90 new buses. Messenger from an online nigerian friend who is fond of forwarding messages. Dickson lagos metropolitan area tranport authority email. Spread the lovea crisis has hit the primero transport services limited, the operators of the blue buses plying the bus rapid transit, brt, corridors in lagos. Galaxy television army denies vandalising brt buses. The city of johannesburg on wednesday announced the names of the two bus manufacturers which would supply buses for phase 1a of the rea vaya bus rapid transit brt system, in a contract worth r391million. Col obasanjo released from hospital early over security. Skeletal operations in the financial system and money markets to continue cbn covid19.

Lane dedicated for brt buses, emergency vehicles on. Generations will look at obasanjo library and say this is the house that fraud built wole soyinka attacks obasanjo in new book. Olujonwo obasanjo the son of former president olusegun obasanjo finally meets with president muhammadu buhari in abuja and pledged to campaign for his reelection. Kaduna bus station timetables and price bus nigeria. Accessibility to lagos bus rapid transit brt lite bus stops. Also in a separate interview, mr babatunde disu, managing director, lagbus asset management, operators of brt buses, confirmed that no bus belonging to the company was seized by obasanjo farms in retaliation. Jul 05, 2014 issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Obasanjo was in zimbabwe on a whistlestop visit, to launch a book he coauthored with biti, former liberian president ellen johnson sirleaf, gregg mills of. The book entitled no enemies to fight, goodluck jonathan on the marble which contained, president jonathans quotable quotes since 2011 till may 1, 20 was yesterday, presented to the public at ijebuigbo. Ashok leyland plans customised buses for lagos brt.

Chief olusegun matthew okikiola aremu obasanjo, gcfr, is a nigerian military and political. Obasanjo, fashola in faceoff over impounding of expresidents. We know the peculiar nature of lagos where miscreants always take advantage of situations like this to cause havoc. Lagos bans interstate buses, vehicles along ikorodu road. Midday headlines of the day wednesday may 22, 2019. Former president olusegun obasanjo launched his autobiography my watch with the royal african society on wednesday 11 february 2015.

Olusegun obasanjo is the former president of nigeria 19761979 and 19992007 and current. Zimbabwe security agents seize democracy book penned by. Zimbabwean state security agents have seized a consignment of a new book written by former nigerian president olusegun obasanjo and. How nyako can be saved presidency by vanguard media. Little girl left stranded after her mother slumped and died at a brt bus station in lagos photos photos of deposed emir of kano, sanusi lamido sanusi, in his apartment in awe community in nasarawa. Executive mayor councillor amos masondo said during a press conference in johannesburg that scania south africa would supply and deliver the chassis and engines for 143 brt buses. Rampage as lagos bans lagbus from plying ikorodu brt corridor. State shelves plan to import brt buses from sa business. He added, with great respect to former president olusegun obasanjo, apart from the allegations of nepotism and clannishness, which cannot be disputed, every other allegation made there in the. All these buses are bad already and what they promised was that no passenger would stay at the bus stop for more than 15 minutes but by the time we published the books, passengers were already waiting at the bus stops for over. Many many passengers were seeing at early hours waiting for the popular bus rapid transit brt which were not immediately available. How nigerias economic recovery was exposed as a mirage 87% of all the poor people in nigeria are from the northworld bank finally, obaseki demolishes hotel owned by adams oshiomoles supporter, tony kabaka view all. Our plans is to put in place systems such as the bus rapid transit brt.

As stated earlier in our release, the mayhem visited on the brt buses was the handiwork of hoodlums who seized the opportunity of the tragic situation to vent their anger on the buses for reasons best known to them. Federal government making moves to stop consumers from owning gas cylinders the federal government is coming up with a new policy that will remove the ownership of cooking gas cylinders from consumers. Obasanjo seizes ten lag buses after fashola impounds one of his vehicles. Are all the buses on each route, in the same condition. See more ideas about bus coach, busses and old school bus. It was gathered that in retaliation, obasanjo ordered his aides to impound lagbus buses plying, lagosogun route.

Rwanda, drc and malawi pull out from wef africa holding in. Ublic transportation in lagos metropolis has remained a major source of concern for successive administrations in. Mobile police are permanently stationed by the government at mobils brt, as at. Local bus assembly and body fabricators are set for a major boost after housing and urban development principal secretary charles hinga reversed a decision to import bus.

When curitibas bus rapid transit stations were revamped in 1991, the futuristic glasstube stops became a new symbol for the brazilian city. We did everything and included photographs of dilapidated schools, roads and terrible state of brt buses in the state. Boost for kenya bus firms as macharia shelves sa imports. The term brt has been applied to a wide range of bus services. When i heard about the arrest, i called the legal firms, of ayanlaja. Department of transportation shares cebu bus rapid transit. Other reform efforts, such as those aimed at regulating buses and containing. From its original 23 kilometers of dedicated brt lanes, there will only be kilometers of dedicated lanes.

I have investigated from our franchise operators if such thing ever happened but none of them confirmed it. Even you yourself could have been if you were in the same position. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that. Former president olusegun obasanjo on saturday arrived in makurdi, the benue state, to condole with the government and people over herdsmens attacks. Nobel laureate, professor wole soyinkas long running virulent attacks of former president, dr. It was gathered that the aggrieved drivers left the employ of the company because their salaries were arbitrarily slashed. Rapid is the brand name given to the bus rapid transit system in san diego county, california. Theres the sprawling filth, the squalid congestion and its distinctive yellow commercial buses. May 18, 2016 lagos takes delivery of first batch of 800 buses, more in couple of weeks, 5000 in next two years duration.

Generations will look at obasanjo library and say this is. Scania, marcopolo win bus supply contracts for joburgs brt. Ambode launches intelligence transport system to help track brt buses. The policy is aimed at helping to deepen the use of liquefied petroleum gas lpg by the federal government. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. We should at least give obasanjo some form of respect too. Passengers stranded over fuel shortage at lagos brt depots. The lagos bus rapid transit system, also known as lagos brt, is a bus rapid transit system in lagos state. According to him, obasanjo, in spite of being schoolmate with.

Ashok leyland india has announced plans to manufacture custom built buses to meet lagos state brt requirements in celebration of the success of the states transit programme and to ensure that the. Awujale reveals how obasanjo tried to use globacom boss to. A classical text book example of paying good with evil to all african nations that helped in the fight against apathied regime. Nigerian soldiers invade lagos palm grooveonipan road. Even in death mko has many enemiespresident buhari is a special personjonathan had good intention by honouring mkohow abacha sent news of mums death to. The withdrawal of the luxury buses left thousands of commuters stranded and crippled commercial activities on ikorodu road. Some rampaging soldiers in lagos state some hours ago set buses belonging to the lagos state bus rapid transit brt system on fire after one of. Impact assessment of bus rapid trnasit on commuters satisfaction in lagos state, nigeria desmond amiegbebhor and o. It is said that a good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself. Lagos without yellow buses march 28, 2017 blueprint politics 0 a new transportation policy which implies that danfo, molue and other yellow buses would vanish from lagos roads as part of eff orts to transform lagos into a mega city is being toyed with by the state government. This is a list of bus rapid transit brt systems which are in operation or under construction. The lagbus asset management limited, operators of lagbus, on friday.

As stated earlier in our release, the mayhem visited on the brt buses was the handiwork of hoodlums who seized the opportunity of the tragic situation to vent their anger on the buses for. Jun 18, 2018 spread the love it was an iconic sight to behold as new buses adorned some of the recently constructed bus terminals in lagos for the takeoff of the bus reform initiative of the state government designed to bequeath a worldclass transportation system and enhance connectivity across the state. Obasanjo, fashola at loggerhead over seized vehicle. Big philanthropy takes the bus since the early 2000s, when the shellbacked embarq began promoting bus rapid transit brt, a wide range of philanthropists and transit advocates have seized on the technical fix, which promises to solve a recognized problem without challenging the power relationships that created it. His successor, abdulsalam abubakar, handed over power to the democraticallyelected government of olusegun obasanjo the next year. Obasanjo, fashola at loggerhead over seized vehicle politics 2 nairaland. They broke his gate, swarmed into his house and kept him under arrest. Anticorruption watchdog seizes peshawar bus rapid transit.

The big buses are called molues and the minibuses, which first appeared in the 1970s, are called danfos. Urban transport project lutp has supported a bus rapid transit brt. Alhaji jamiu abiola, son of the late presumed winner of the june 12, 1993 presidential election, chief mko abiola, has claimed that he once begged former president, olusegun obasanjo, to honour his father for the sacrifices he made for democracy in nigeria but was ignored. Former nigerian president olusegun obasanjo, who spoke at the launch of his book, my watch, in london.

Informal urban governance and predatory politics in africa. Between democracy and big man politics zed books, london, 2018. In lagos alone, there are over 54 intracity or intrastate routes, plied by the brt buses. Brt provides faster, greener, safer and more efficient service than an ordinary bus.

This afternoon, a man riding a motorcycle, was, today, crushed to death by a brt bus which veered off the road on the 3rd mainland bridge in lagos. He first came to prominence as the soldier who accepted the surrender of biafran forces after the 196770 civil war. It is indeed expected that private car users would drop their cars to use the brt bus for convenience and comfort. The brt buses are parked in the premises of obasanjo farms nigeria. Obasanjo attacks jonathan and yaradua, defends buhari at book. Cbn to create 50 billion naira credit facility to boost economy imf. Olusegun obasanjo the former president of nigeria, club madrid. This ensures that the brt buses are not caught up in traffic jams. Olusegun obasanjo speaks at book presentation on president. In late 1983, however, the military seized power again. Planning for the brtthe first system of its kind in subsaharan.

According to eye witness report, the student identified as ezekiel daniel, 17 was trying to cross the busy expressway when the brt bus, popularly known. You read books about and you see they rode the bus but you dont see it without pictures like these. Son of mrs taiwo obasanjo, the younger obsanjo has already identified with the campaign team and pledge his support, contrary to the position of his father, who is vehemently against buhari. Brt new buses are coming in batches to lagos busstops. Obasanjo could have be in jail if buhari is not selective in his corruption agenda february 20, 2018 nigeria, politics in his reaction to the warning former president olusegun obasanjo wrote in his open letter to president buhari when he warned buhari again. The wisdom of the motorparks and bus stops is that resisting agberos.

In 2004, the federal government under president olusegun obasanjo had. The rashly driven bus rapid transit brt buses on the dedicated route has always been a cause of worry for the citizens. Hundreds of passengers were stranded at various bus terminus in lagos on thursday due to fuel shortage at lagos brt depots. Jul 18, 2012 we nigerians can fight anywhere even inside our new brt buses in lagos. Col obasanjo released from hospital early over security concerns lt. Apr 23, 2003 born in abeokuta in 1937, olusegun obasanjo, worked his way up through the ranks of the army. According to him, obasanjo, in spite of being schoolmate with the late abiola, was perceived as hating him. W hen the nobel laureate wole soyinka fled nigeria in 1994, and was sentenced to death in absentia by the military regime of sani abacha in 1997, he likened the liminal but dynamic state of the. Remember you campaigning in brt buses then and made it sound as if 4 years was too much to turn things around, sincerely my heart was filled with joy that at last. Some commuters in lagos state on wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over the proposed increase of fares by the primero transport services limited, operator of the bus.

Olusegun obasanjo arrested see pic word coming out of otta, ogun state indicates that former president, chief olusegun obasanjo, was in the early hours of this morning, whisked away. In 2012, the institute for transportation and development policy itdp published a brt standard to make it easier to standardize and compare bus services. National leader of the ruling all progressives congress apc, asiwaju bola tinubu, on counselled former president olusegun obasanjo and a former head of state, gen. Riot in ikorodu as brt bus kills primary six student.

Abubakar atiku, ex president olusegun obasanjo and otunba mike adenuga the efcc in lagos had come calling brusquely on mike adenuga jnr, chairman globacom on 9 july 2006. The system serves nearly half the county, operating mainly on the hov lanes on interstates 15 and 805, with most of the stops also served by other routes. Charles dickens a tale of two molues 1 rise networks. In 1999, we published a booklength report the price of oil. The agency embarked on developing a bus rapid transit brt corridor, which. Tell us how many brt buses you have taken, and on which routes. I have not started seizing yet, by the time i start with fashola, all the brt buses in lagos will be used as chicken cages in my farm. According to a lastma official at the scene, the deceased just got sacked from work, according to a letter found on him. Though obasanjo was alleged to have made efforts to get the vehicle released, which proved abortive, the action was, however, said to have led to the forceful seizure of 10 lag buses, which were alleged to have been taken into the premises of obasanjo farms between last week friday and sunday. Nov 07, 2016 rampage as lagos bans lagbus from plying ikorodu brt corridor. Former president olusegun obasanjo and the lagos state governor. Local bus assembly and body fabricators are set for a major boost after transport secretary james macharia reversed a decision to import 30 bus rapid transit brt vehicles from south africa at a.

The thrust of the message is that each and everyone of those listed below have been persecuted at one time or another by president obasanjo. Now the fact that brt buses run at a dangerous speed has been confirmed by none other than the specially created brt cell itself that monitored these buses through global positioning system gps installed on some of these buses. When obasanjo was the president, i visited him several times and called him several times. Like every form of advertising, advert reach in numbers should be considered while cost and demographic classification are also key in advertising.

Request for expressions of interest abuja bus rapid transit. President olusegun obasanjo explained yesterday why he has. Five days after a bus rapid transit brt allegedly crushed a lance corporal of the nigerian army na to death, with its attendant mayhem, in lagos state, the 81 division headquarters in the state tuesday debunked the allegations that soldiers were responsible for vandalising the stateowned commercial buses. The house stated this during a plenary that it was important to investigate the purchase of the 820 buses out of the 5,000 buses proposed by former governor akinwunmi. My post dealt with the condition of the red brt buses and i confirmed the blue brt buses were marginally better. Africas first bus rapid transit brt scheme began operations on march 17, 2008, in lagos, nigeria. Imagine a president of nigeria making a statement and less than five minutes later, people were in brt buses protesting. Our member and former president of nigeria, olusegun obasanjo, publishes a book about africa, its challenges and opportunities as a rapidly growing and. Obasanjo meet with buhari today bestiares gladiators. In response, in 1995 obasanjo was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured.

The vehicle, which belongs to obasanjo farms nigeria, was impounded. That manhattan should convert its subways to buses now hes putting buses underground, i guess because it. Obasanjo seizes ten lag buses after fashola impounds one. Brt bus did not kill any soldier lagbus premium times nigeria. Force on environment and special offenses arrested fortysix agberos who were. Olusegun obasanjo visits charlyboy and mother video. Acidtalk but baba, i heard you have seized about 3 red brt buses is that true. If it were to be tinubus truck dat violated d traffic laws would he even be arrested in d first instance. State supervised bus rapid transit have been seized by people believed to. Either way we look at it, brt lagbus have come to stay. My watch book launch with olusegun obasanjo youtube. Fashola has also taken advantage of his stronger political position to adopt a. Kindly board a state operated brt bus from ajah to obalende and cms or from oshodi to sangoota and environs and you would wonder if it were the same lagos state operating other versions of the brt buses. A concrete divider is erected on the road to section off one lane from the others.

Ambode launches intelligence transport system to help track. Sep, 2017 the lagos state government on wednesday announced the restriction of the operation of interstate buses and vehicles operating along ikorodu road from going beyond ojodu berger and ojota motor parks. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Feb 09, 20 the brt system in lagos is run on 3 models. News this morning that at least 10 lagbus buses had been impounded and parked in the premises of obasanjo farms since last weekend. The department of transportation has announced on tuesday, september 3, the modifications in the php16 billion cebu bus rapid transit system project whose operation is set to begin in 2021. The lagos state house assembly on tuesday has setup a committee to investigate the purchase of 820 buses by the administration of former governor akinwunmi ambode of the state. In liama, the navy responded to the seizure of boats and employees of an oil service. Brt bus did not kill any soldier lagbus premium times. Bus rapid transit brt a modern transit system with the flexibility of buses, and the speed, comfort and reliability of rail enjoys growing popularity of around the world. Various juntas have seized control of the country and ruled it through most of its history. The first phase of the lagos brt was opened on 17 march 2008, although it was initially slated for opening in november 2007.